Rory Kinnear
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FRED FRITH DENIS VILLENEUVE I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that o... NATASSIA MALTHE Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believin... HALEY JOEL OSMENT COLM MEANEY IOAN GRUFFUDD PETER DINKLAGE And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know... EMILY WATSON JUSTIN THEROUX DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I'm a very happy-go-lucky lover of all mankind as a person in real life. So when I play a darker... DOUG JONES I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads t... BEN DANIELS A lot of times, you get into it with your significant other, and you feel like, 'Oh my God, you ... SEVYN STREETER Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify... BILLY UNGER The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the fi... IDRIS ELBA I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm ... JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY STEVE CARELL I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happ... HOLT MCCALLANY MICHAEL REDHILL KATEE SACKHOFF JOHN MALKOVICH LIL UZI VERT ALEXA CHUNG I have a growing resume, but it's because I'm very selective. There are a lot of actors in m... ELIJAH KELLEY I'm very much a believer in the character always heading for something or after something. But t... MONICA DOLAN THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted,... CALEB CARR I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but ... KATE MICUCCI JOHN CENA SEAN BEAN The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really - my name, McCann, the translation isn&... RORY MCCANN PRIYANKA CHOPRA What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are an... KATHERINE MOENNIG I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that ... WENDIE MALICK DAVID BECKHAM JOANNA LUMLEY BRIE LARSON JAY-Z LEONARD COHEN I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors do... ANNIE POTTS LAKE BELL There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of th... ZACHARY LEVI As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for eve... BRUCE VILANCH You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person. CANDIS CAYNE RUSSELL CROWE I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what... JAMIE CULLUM You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's ... KEVIN WHATELY DARYL HANNAH DAVID THEWLIS There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian chara... KIMIKO GLENN There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart.... CAITLIN KITTREDGE I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from t... BERNARD SAHLINS There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their resea... DOUGLAS PRESTON BRENE BROWN Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. Yo... CAMILLA BELLE CHUCK PALAHNIUK Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They'... EDIE FALCO I'm all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I'm not afraid of knowle... RICHARD PRESTON If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it... EMILY BLUNT British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast o... JIM STURGESS GRACE GEALEY BETTY WHITE JOHN HAWKES GEORGE MICHAEL CHRIS LOWE VIRAT KOHLI You watch stuff like 'The Real Housewives' and you start to think, 'We're all so vac... MIKE WHITE I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of ... DAVID LABRAVA MICHELLE PFEIFFER I personally like to talk to people when I'm not doing a scene, still acting as if I'm in Go... CAMREN BICONDOVA I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain ... CARLA GUGINO BOB NEWHART It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limi... LOUIS GARREL As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something... CAMILLA LUDDINGTON I'm not a blokey bloke. I don't take myself too seriously. But that doesn't stop me bein... TOM ELLIS And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm no... RACHEL HUNTER RYAN GOSLING ANJELICA HUSTON RICHARD MADDEN RIVER PHOENIX EVE BEST I juice a lot; I get as much protein as I can, because being a vegan, there isn't much protein. ... TRAVIS BARKER I don't believe that directors need to essentially manipulate actors into doing things. You can ... RUTH NEGGA
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For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I though... RORY KINNEAR Both Othello and Iago seem a bit cracked. If you spend 15 years being responsible for death and dest... RORY KINNEAR I get antsy if a year goes by without doing a play. I don't go to the gym, so this is my way of ... RORY KINNEAR I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structur... RORY KINNEAR If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, y... RORY KINNEAR However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sen... RORY KINNEAR Drama aids self-discovery like nothing else. In removing it from our schools, we remove the inestima... RORY KINNEAR The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could... RORY KINNEAR It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries. RORY KINNEAR I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went... GREG KINNEAR When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city ... GREG KINNEAR I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Ne... GREG KINNEAR Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust. GREG KINNEAR Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find. GREG KINNEAR There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can rea... GREG KINNEAR My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my f... GREG KINNEAR If Landon Donovan going to L.A. strengthens MLS and carries it on for five or 10 years, I'm all for ... DOMINIC KINNEAR I find fear is a great motivator to work hard. GREG KINNEAR I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit. GREG KINNEAR We have a lot of smart, experienced players on our team and they know how to prepare for each game. ... DOMINIC KINNEAR I knew as soon as the whistle was blown that Dwayne was going to run over and get it or wrestle it o... DOMINIC KINNEAR The guys just continue to play good soccer and that is what is getting results for us. They are conf... DOMINIC KINNEAR I don't think we played our best game tonight. The effort was there but obviously guys can't play br... DOMINIC KINNEAR I think we've exceeded expectations. However, when we have everyone healthy, we have very high expec... DOMINIC KINNEAR I give all the credit to the players. I just told them to play all 90 minutes. You have to give your... DOMINIC KINNEAR I want to make sure that we put them under pressure because with them playing three in the back, it ... DOMINIC KINNEAR I like to do stuff within the league with players that know the setup of travel, stadiums and refere... DOMINIC KINNEAR I wish it was resolved so I can come home with a clear mind. It's hard not to think about it when it... DOMINIC KINNEAR Last year's pool, who would have guessed [during the combine] how good it would be. People were sayi... DOMINIC KINNEAR I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done e... GREG KINNEAR Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the jo... GREG KINNEAR If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and ... GREG KINNEAR I'm someone who's always looked forward to marriage. My parents being together for so long made marr... GREG KINNEAR I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all. GREG KINNEAR I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangero... GREG KINNEAR Cat lovers turn into cat collectors. GREG KINNEAR Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star... RORY BREMNER London has always moved and surprised me, reinventing itself in ways both fresh and familiar. It'... RORY MACLEAN One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, W... RORY BREMNER I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the ar... RORY BREMNER Since the summer days of my Canadian childhood, I have loved to canoe across the dark mirror of nort... RORY MACLEAN I love animals; I've always loved animals. It's how I identified myself for so long, but I d... RORY FREEDMAN RORY STEWART RORY MCILROY RORY STEWART RORY MCILROY RORY STEWART RORY MCILROY I am proud of Edinburgh's status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global f... RORY BREMNER I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the midd... RORY BREMNER Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the ... RORY BREMNER RORY MCILROY People who work with me think I should cut my hair. They say casting directors are less likely to hi... RORY CULKIN I remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just... RORY COCHRANE RORY STEWART To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of ... RORY MACLEAN Maybe we like our politicians to appear like bumbling oafs. It certainly never did Ronald Reagan or ... RORY BREMNER RORY MCILROY I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of ... RORY BREMNER RORY STEWART RORY MCILROY I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person a... RORY KENNEDY RORY STEWART I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,'... RORY MCCANN Mandy Sutter's 'Bush Meat' triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarmin... RORY MACLEAN For some time, Scotland's greatest exports to England have included whisky and Scottish MPs. Or,... RORY BREMNER Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so wha... RORY BREMNER RORY STEWART RORY MCILROY In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunati... RORY MCCANN To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice... RORY MACLEAN I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able... RORY BREMNER RORY MCILROY RORY MCILROY RORY MCILROY RORY MCILROY I'm all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve condition... RORY KENNEDY Berlin inspired Bowie and stirred him to write about real, important matters. RORY MACLEAN I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life ... RORY BREMNER RORY MCILROY RORY MCILROY For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mou... RORY BREMNER RORY STEWART Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing. RORY FREEDMAN RORY MCILROY One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch. RORY MACLEAN I don't think it adds any more pressure on the tournament director or creates any resentment. Hey, I... RORY SABBATINI RORY MCILROY I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening. RORY BREMNER Eight months after graduating from Ryerson, there I was in West Berlin working with Marlene Dietrich... RORY MACLEAN When I looked at the scoreboard and he was 2-under through four holes, I knew the only person who ha... RORY SABBATINI The Republicans have control of the Senate, but the economy is still struggling. Maybe [Republican c... RORY ROBERTSON What is needed in out of the way places, especially in the rainy season, is an elephant. They are an... RORY HENSMAN RORY MCILROY The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really - my name, McCann, the translation isn&... RORY MCCANN I don't know if you can call it a chip on my shoulder or a monkey on my back, but I shed it today. RORY SABBATINI I do not cry because I am sad, but because I am angry at my self for feeling negative emotions. RORY O'CLEARY I haven't had too many four-shot leads. I felt like I left a lot of shots out there. RORY SABBATINI I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that. RORY COCHRANE Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, bu... RORY FREEDMAN RORY STEWART (Blocking shots) was kind of her forte. She had a ton of them every game. RORY HUFF Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact a... RORY MACLEAN The problem, with the Conservative Party is that they are actually going backwards. They have now sk... RORY BREMNER I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do. RORY COCHRANE The markets were a little disappointed that the Fed didn't give any explicit hint that a pause is ar... RORY ROBERTSON It kicked some 'Daddy'-butt! ... Word of mouth has been really good. It seems to have been a very go... RORY BRUER All people are born with kind hearts. RORY O'CLEARY Many men have sought out happiness to find it right in front of them. RORY O'CLEARY To like something is to waste time; a true master must be passionate. RORY O'CLEARY If a guitar is not regularly tuned, it will be unusable; as it is with life. RORY O'CLEARY Choices are what either drives a man to madness or strengthens him; it depends on the man's previous... RORY O'CLEARY Evil is not natural, nor is goodness. They are created and defined by people. RORY O'CLEARY If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed thro... RORY BREMNER I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought... RORY KENNEDY There's a great op-ed piece by Kurt Johnson, who runs The List Project, that I recommend everyon... RORY KENNEDY I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I e... RORY MCCANN I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and... RORY MCCANN My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recal... RORY FREEDMAN I'm just about to move to a place that you can only get there by rowing a boat across a loch, wh... RORY MCCANN RORY MCILROY When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air... RORY BREMNER RORY MCILROY It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in ... RORY BREMNER Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change. RORY MACLEAN RORY MCILROY One of the most remarkable shindigs I ever attended was in Warsaw. RORY MACLEAN Don't crop ears or tails or declaw cats; it's really painful. People think it's necessar... RORY FREEDMAN When I was younger, I actually had a ghost face mask, and I stood in my sister's room in the cor... RORY CULKIN The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with s... RORY MACLEAN RORY STEWART When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it ... RORY BREMNER Before I met David Bowie, I was very nervous. I thought, 'Here comes the Thin White Duke, Ziggy ... RORY MACLEAN RORY MCILROY RORY MCILROY In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would ... RORY BREMNER The travel book is a convenient metaphor for life, with its optimistic beginning or departure, its d... RORY MACLEAN My favourite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver cur... RORY MACLEAN I just take a book everywhere with me. It's a habit. RORY GILMORE Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland... RORY BREMNER I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha Coun... RORY GILMORE People are caught up in the debate over what really happened. The whole idea of exorcisms is intrigu... RORY BRUER I don't know how much better newer editions are than the old editions, but I guess it depends on the... RORY SCHMIDT Otherwise, we'd constantly be at class, if not work. RORY WOOLDRIDGE I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do. RORY COCHRANE I have friends who are blacksmiths in the north of Scotland, so I took a few master classes with,the... RORY MCCANN If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won'... E. S. KINNEAR
I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into ... 
When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you'r... 
Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person. 
As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with wher... 
Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, d... 
There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, an... 
You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always s... 
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as i... 
We're coming into a new generation of women where there's the submissive woman, and then our... 
It's one of the hardest things in the world to sustain a monogamous relationship for many years.... 
I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many peo... 
I'm very sensitive about the fact that there's not a lot of good work for women in cinema th... 
Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character a... 
I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in th... 
There are a lot of directors out there who are very specific, visual craftsmen, and while I have the... 
Writing is harder than acting. I enjoy acting for just the brevity with which you can be in the expe... 
As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of... 
You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. ... 
I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a cha... 
What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Ci... 
I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself a... 
There are always people who are into the old way of doing things. I don't think it's a bad t... 
Tech companies approach you to hold something in a picture and then say, 'This is what I want yo... 
I'm not a security-type person, I don't want to have bodyguards around me. I'm not into ... 
When you see me on TV, that's about as close to my real personality as you can get. There are a ... 
I love creating things, especially out of metal. There's something truly satisfying about shapin... 
There are cliques in Bollywood, and people stick together, but I have always tried to stick to my wo... 
I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the r... 
When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the ... 
If I go into a studio and find my truth of the moment, there are a number of people in the world who... 
There are some people who come to me for some illumination on their problems. I guess they feel I... 
I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting, I take to the pen, and I write something I ... 
I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and b... 
I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time t... 
What we do is ridiculous! I think that even when what I'm doing is serious, even when I'm no... 
In my research, I've interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call &... 
I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about tha... 
I understand that there are a few roles out there and tons of actors. Just because you don't get... 
I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people ... 
I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read s... 
I'm 10-12 years into life as an out gay man, and I'm a different person. I think there are t... 
There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won't get in. I... 
I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in sel... 
I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting ... 
I always hated when the studios just kind of said that anybody can act. You look at people like Spen... 
Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you ju... 
I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to... 
Undoubtedly there is a difference between people with money having access to the arts that people fr... 
Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction ... 
I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the came... 
If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, ... 
I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likew... 
I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have c... 
I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the hist... 
I wish to clarify that I have absolutely not made a decision regarding my participation in the next ... 
September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of ... 